Seward Johnson: Against Propriety

Recipient of the 2020 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Seward Johnson, whose artistic and professional career as a sculptor spans more than 50 years, initially received wide critical acclaim in the 1960s for his first work, Stainless Girl.

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Rachel Rotenberg: Muscular Movements

“Sanity,” a title shared by Rachel Rotenberg’s recent exhibitions at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and at Gershman Gallery in Philadelphia, not only suggests the role that making art plays for her, but also argues for the necessity of art in a world where countless forces, from technology to climate change to war, threaten to overwhelm us.

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Natalie Moore: Metaphor in Action

Natalie Moore, a longtime resident of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Greenpoint (she has a studio in Greenpoint), originally hails from California. In the mid-1980s, she attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, which is known for its experimental interests, particularly in the arts and humanities.

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Judy Chicago

“I was always interested in fringe techniques. I did formed domes, I did big fiberglass sculptures, I went to autobody school—new form allows for new content. But nobody paid attention to my interest in fringe techniques as long as they were masculine. It was only when I crossed the gender gap into what was forgotten that it became notable.”

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